186 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 184 
The Acoma Corn clan was said to have been introduced by mar- 
riage from Acoma not many years prior to 1952. The Sia and Acoma 
Corn clans are regarded as separate clans; intermarriage between 
them is permissible. However, the Acoma Corn clan will not be 
permitted to have its clan house in the center of the pueblo. 
Results of a clan census made in 1957 are shown in table 30. 
TaBLE 30.—Clan census of Sia, 1957 
Clan Male Female Total 
COMA COLD... Sees oo Soe rae a ee ee nee 4 4 8 
Sisi@ormLe ls. £2... Ge NE SA Oe Bee ASS Be 8 11 19 
Water eres aa er a ee aoe ee ae eee ee ee 12 14 26 
Bears ii 22 S5. SEES ERS es Eee 2S ER UE ee 2 0 2 
To: Cet eee ae Sake eee a ease 5 4 9 
Antelope! Washpa!.s 5/55 23.48 Iota 3s Seba Pee Eee Sd ot 34 20 54 
Sia Washpa sos 2 oe 8 ee oe eo eens 9 11 20 
@ochiti Washpas .-£2¢.. 2.5 #eh 23 ee SiS Sait ce ee 1 2 3 
COvOte Bin aee te an ee o no Seno ea eee ee 88 77 165 
‘Unknowar._ 2 Fees) _ Sabie 5 Shes (eek ee SE se ete 8 8 16 
Align TeSiGONt 025 2-32 een ee eo ee en ee ee 2 5 7 
MCU rez) LS SNE ol te SR tS Se ak A Ae 173 156 329 
The Coyote clan has almost exactly one-half the population of 
Sia. Coyote and Antelope Washpa together have about two-thirds 
of the people. Antelope Washpa has more members than Acoma 
Corn, Bear, Tobacco, Sia and Cochiti Washpa clans combined. I 
can throw no light on the reasons for the difference in size of clans; some 
simply reproduce faster than others. The 16 ‘unknown’ individuals 
in table 30 are children of alien resident wives whose clan affilia- 
tion is unknown, or whose Sia mothers are not known with assurance. 
CLAN ADOPTION 
Children may be adopted into a clan to keep it from dying out, 
as we have already seen in the case of the Bear clan. San Antonio 
Pablo Salas, born about 1834 according to the 1904 census, was one 
of the few remaining members of the Water clan. So, during the 
early years of the present century, he urged that one of his daughter’s 
daughters, Carrie Theodora, Acoma Corn clan, born about 1896, be 
put into the Water clan. This was done and the change proved to 
be successful, for by 1957, Carrie had borne 9 children, 5 of whom 
were girls. Two of her daughters were married in 1957 and had, 
between them, 10 children, 6 of whom were female. The Water 
clan at Sia was further strengthened when Florence Trujillo, Water 
clan, of Cochiti, born 1904, married Sebastian Shije (p. 213). 
Luciana Lovato, Sia Corn clan, born about 1861, was afraid that 
her son, Jose Vigil Medina, might be made cacique, so it was said, 
so she had him adopted into the Coyote clan. ‘But this will not 
guarantee his escape,” an informant opined. Jose Antonio Medina 
